Comment by snakedoctor

Unfortunately this is a common practice in the gaming industry. https://www.vgr.com/take-two-lawsuit-against-gta-online-modd... GTA coerced a kid in to signing an NDA, and then sued him for hacking GTA 5. Battleye (anti-cheat used on games like Fortnite, rainbow six siege, PUBG etc.) https://www.reddit.com/r/arma/comments/2750n0/battleye_is_se... founder/lead dev/ceo Bastian Suiter threatened to sue a hacker for publishing some intrusive stuff that Battleye did/is doing. Battleye recently DMCA'd a project that vmcall's club/group published which emulated the heartbeat checks etc. Though Bastian denied doing it on Battleyes twitter accounts (twitter.com/thebattleye). Microsoft sent a PI to members in the Xbox Underground group (https://www.wired.com/story/xbox-underground-videogame-hacke...). Microsoft also used to include a console's serial number in the animated xbox 360 logo on the main screen in morse code (https://qf0.github.io/blog/2020/01/28/Microsoft-xbox-fingerp...). In order to identify users who published hacking/modding videos on Youtube.